WPSpeedster Blog

No matter if your important stuff is located on some server in a datacenter or on your own computer, saving backups to some external device is always a good idea. Same thing is true for your databases, and no matter how reliable your own ...Read More

One of the most painful parts of setting up a WordPress blog – at least for me – is choosing the theme. There are plenty of awesome free themes, as well as commercial ones, but it still feels the best when you do it ...Read More

Working with people who are not in the same room with you can be a blessing, or a curse, depends a lot on the tasks you have to accomplish, the people you work with, and your own style of work. Speaking for myself, I ...Read More

The problem with most pattern generators we talked about so far is that customization possibilities aren’t exactly endless. Obviously, the good part is that even my grandmother can use them, but with a little bit of training, I am sure she can also learn ...Read More

Talent is everything, but if you’re not working in a standardized manner, you will waste most of it. Obviously, we’re not talking about sculpture here, since displaying sitemaps won’t help other people than Web designers, but this isn’t a blog for other professionals, so… ...Read More

A few years ago, I messed with CSS for a while, and despite the fact working with it can get pretty tricky sometimes, learning the basics is pretty easy. Since most problems appear when having to handle complex layouts, having a little helper by ...Read More

Any serious designer shouldn’t mess with Web-based site creation tools… or at least that’s what I was almost sure of some years ago. Now, I think that using online resources like Wix can’t hurt, at least in the early stages of a site’s development. ...Read More